whirl

Meaning of whirl

noun
  1. An act of whirling.
    She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
  2. Something that whirls.
  3. A confused tumult.
  4. A rapid series of events.
    My life is one social whirl.
  5. Dizziness or giddiness.
    My mind was in a whirl.
  6. (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.
    OK, let's give it a whirl.
verb
  1. To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
    The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
  2. To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
    My head is whirling after all that drink.
  3. To make something or someone whirl.
    The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.
  4. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.

Information about whirl

  • The plural form of whirl is: whirls.
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Hyphenation of whirl

whirl

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • whirl is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

whirl synonyms

Meaning commotion:

commotion

Meaning swirl:

swirl, vortex, convolution

Meaning crack:

crack, fling, go, pass, offer

Meaning spin:

spin, twirl, twist, twisting, reel, gyrate

Meaning twirl:

twirl, swirl, twiddle

Meaning birl:

birl, spin, twirl

Meaning eddy:

eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl

Meaning tumble:

tumble

Words that rhyme with whirl

chirl, Shirl, shirl, nosethirl, thirl, awhirl, outwhirl, overwhirl, rewhirl, upwhirl

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